Picture-support or card-holder



(No Model.)

A. B. BOSTWIQK. PICTURE SUPPORT 0R CARD HOLDER.

No. 560,465. Patented May 19, 1896.

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U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR B. BOSTIVICK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. I

PICTURE-SUPPORT OR CARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 560,465, dated May 19,1896.

Application filed June 15, 1895.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. BosrwIcK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improved Picture-Support or Card-Holder; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in a new and useful picture-support orcard-holder, hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of myimproved picture-support or card-holder, showing a card or photograph inposition. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

In the drawings, A represents my photograph-support, which 'may be madeof sheet metal or any other suitable substance which can be bent to theshape desired. One end is bent back upon itself, as shown at a, formin ga recess for receiving and holding a photograph or other object B. Theholder is again bent backupon itself, as shown at d, and then bentoutward horizontally, as at b, the bends a and I) being in the samehorizontal line with the extended end, which rests upon the table orother surface upon which the card or photograph is to be supported. Itwill be seen that by this construction I secure a large supporting-base.The holder being of sheet metal can be made thin enough for a card torest on one corner without tipping appreciably, and that my holders actas extensions of the cards and not as props, making it possible toSerial No. 552,873. (No model.)

hold a large card with a small holder without danger of its fallingover, and that by slightly bending the support at b the card can betilted to any desired angle. It will be noticed that I so regulate theposition of the bend b that the entire length of the support rests uponthe table'instead of the end only, and that thereby the card is heldwithout vibration due to the spring of the metal.

Any desired ornament may be cut,stamped, painted, or attached in anydesired manner to the part of the support which is in View when in use;also, if desired, at that point or at any other point desired the sheetmetal may be formed into a disk, or may be out to any other desiredshape, either for the purpose of ornament or to carry an advertisement.

Minor changes in form may also be made without departing from the spiritof my i11- vention.

Having now described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

A picture-support comprising a strip of thin, flexible material A, bentabruptly upward, as at b, then abruptly downward, as at d, and thenagain abruptly upward, as at a, the bends a and b being in the same, orin substantially the same horizontal plane with the extended end of theholder, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presenceof two witnesses.

ARTHUR B. BOS TWIOK.

Witnesses:

B. H. WILLIAMS, JOHN DOHERTY.

